From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266757AbUGUWH1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:07:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266753AbUGUWH0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:07:26 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:57492 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266758AbUGUWHF (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:07:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:05:29 -0400 From: Greg KH To: Jesse Stockall Cc: Oliver Neukum , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs Message-ID: <20040721220529.GB18721@kroah.com> References: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> <200407211626.55670.oliver@neukum.org> <20040721145208.GA13522@kroah.com> <1090444782.8033.4.camel@homer.blizzard.org> <20040721212745.GC18110@kroah.com> <1090446817.8033.18.camel@homer.blizzard.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1090446817.8033.18.camel@homer.blizzard.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:53:37PM -0400, Jesse Stockall wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:27, Greg KH wrote: > > > > It fixes an obviously broken chunk of code that is not maintained by > > _anyone_. And it will clean up all device drivers a _lot_ to have this > > gone, which will benifit everyone in the long run. > > > > Agreed, but this 'broken' chunk of code is 'working' for a lot of people > (whether or not this is due to pure luck is not the point) Pure luck. > > As for "right now"? Why not? I'm just embracing the new development > > model of the kernel :) > > That's the point that Oliver and I raised, the "leave it till 2.7" (not > breaking things for real world users) argument seems stronger than the > "rip it now" (because it makes things cleaner, easier to code, etc) > argument. The kernel development model (the whole stable/development tree thing) has changed based on the discussions at the kernel summit yesterday. See lwn.net for more details. That is why I sent this patch at this point in time. thanks, greg k-h